Women with a degree earn on average 28% more than non-graduate women. Men with degrees earn an average of 8% more than non-graduates. But a third of men go to universities which give them only a “negligible” pay advantage, despite the cost of fees.

Fifteen to 20 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54 have fallen out of the American workforce altogether. On the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, Carol Graham examines why this group has fallen into such despair, how they compare to their counterparts globally, and what these trends may hold for the workforce and society.

The current economic expansion began in mid-2009 and has already passed the 1960s’ boom for longevity (106 months, from 1961 to 1969). It is now approaching the record, the 1990s’ boom (120 months, from 1991 to 2001).

Kamala Harris brought sex work into the 2020 spotlight. Here’s what she should do next.

Kamala Harris became the first mainstream U.S. presidential candidate to publicly state she supports the decriminalization of sex work. In 2008, however, Harris opposed Proposition K, a San Francisco ballot measure brought by sex workers to end prostitution arrests in the city.

‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border

Americans experience a very different economy depending on where they live. New interactive research from the Hamilton Project at Brookings measures the vitality of states and counties across the country and maps which places are struggling and which are thriving.